The studio is interested in making humane interventions in complex urban sites. Accepting the city for all its messiness, we left aside grand plans and applied subtle energy to situations as found, approaching them with an attitude of flexibility, empathy and care. We want to be useful.

We focused our research on combinations of carefully chosen materials with differing lifecycles in the construction of civic space, buildings and wild city gardens, doing a lot with relatively little. We took clear-eyed responsibility for how we chose to build, looking to minimise fossil energy use and contribute to regenerative resource systems.

In our first project we worked together making live-build constructions in the ground of Cables Wynd House, before developing our research further into detailed building designs in our second project. We tried to make architecture of the everyday, thinking as gardeners—generous frameworks for the imaginations and inhabitations of others. Architecture as background to the daily life of the city.

In an urgent context of climate crises and social inequality, we aimed to propose architectural strategies that were thoughtful, nuanced, quietly helpful, and maybe beautiful.